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From: riley@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Soft links vs hard links (was Re: yet another 1.4 request)
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Date: 5 Jul 89 18:07:08 GMT
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Reply-To: riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <8907012203.AA21545@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>	One thing I would like to mention at this point.  In the many
>    years I've used links I've used them almost solely to soft link
>    directories to each other.  I soft link files about as much as I
>    hard link files, which is never.

Hey Matt, what about your backup and restore program?  Same executable,
changes behavior depending on the name--that seems like a prime candidate
for a soft link to a file.

-Dan Riley (riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu, cornell!batcomputer!riley)
-Wilson Lab, Cornell U.